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throwanem05/04/20251 replyview on HN

Oh, that's an excellent point, especially since this is a perfect case for workers more broadly. I've had a bit of an app dev interregnum these last or postpandemic years; if service worker support has advanced that broadly, then that's wonderful news! Not especially surprising news, I suspect, but wonderful. Last I afforded close attention, the state of play for service workers in iOS Safari particularly was "don't bother."

Since I like an iPhone - or have thought at least they're least worst for 13 years and counting - you can probably imagine how this would have depressed my interest: Even though irrelevant here in that touchscreen PDF editing is an extremely hard problem and none I'd expect a solo dev to address, just knowing nothing I built with a worker I would myself be able to use, has made me not want to sink good time and effort into the topic at all. Best case that's all just wasted; worst case, it creates a dilemma I might not escape without a new regret.


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philjohnson05/04/2025

The service worker functionality can be expressed as a PWA! Based on the comments I'm thinking of heading in that direction.

As far as touchscreen PDF editing, that is 100% doable and something I plan on adding soon. Touchevents are supported natively in the web

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Touch_event...